Thursday, November 19, 2009

Church-Musick

SWEETEST of sweets, I thank you when displeasureDid through my body wound my minde,You took me thence ; and in your house of pleasureA daintie lodging me assign'd.

Now I in you without a bodie move,Rising and falling with your wings :We both together sweetly live and love,Yet say sometimes, God help poore Kings.

Comfort, 'Ile ; for if you poste from me,Sure I shall do so, and much more :But if I travell in your companie,You know the way to heavens doore.

--George Herbert

"Here was a man who seemed to me to excel all the authorsI had read in conveying the very quality of life as we live itfrom moment to moment, but the wretched fellow, instead of doing it all directly, insisted on mediating it through what I still would have called the "Christian mythology." The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed, "Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores."-C. S. Lewis

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Seeking the Beauty of Holiness

Welcome to a fresh discussion of Christian involvement with the arts. As Christians are commanded to "sing to the Lord a new song," I encourage all creative people to publish their ideas here as we seek to serve our Lord. Oh, come: let us worship Him!